MSF began working in Lesotho in 2006 to assist the country’s response to growing rates of HIV and recently returned to assist with COVID-19.
In 2006, we supported clinics and a hospital in the Scott Hospital Health Service Area to provide antiretroviral treatment and comprehensive care to people living with HIV. MSF supported Lesotho through a health worker shortage, that peaked in 2007, which impacted the country’s ability to deliver healthcare. By 2009, we had handed over six of the 15 clinics we had been supporting to the government, and the remaining projects were handed over in November 2015.
In 2021, we briefly returned to Lesotho to assist in the country’s response to COVID-19, including by training medical staff.
2006
2006
HIV/AIDS
AIDS death toll stagnating due to lack of testing at community level
Press Release
1 Dec 2019
HIV/AIDS
MSF report "No time to lose" examines the fight against AIDS in 15 countries
Report
27 Nov 2019
Lesotho
Free maternal care has an impressive return on investment
Press Release
3 Nov 2015
Photo Story
Gallery: Family Planning in Lesotho
5 Mar 2015
Photo Story
HIV/AIDS
Community models of care explained
Project Update
26 Nov 2014
HIV/AIDS
We see pregnant women dying from HIV
Project Update
22 Jul 2014
Lesotho
Maternal mortality in the mountain kingdom
Project Update
5 Jun 2013
Global
Coping with health worker shortages: lessons and limits
Project Update
24 May 2007
HIV/AIDS
Help wanted: confronting the healthcare worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment
Report
18 May 2007
Lesotho
Lesotho's painfully slow fight to treat HIV
Project Update
6 Apr 2006
South Africa
MSF opens new HIV/AIDS programme in Lesotho
Project Update
28 Feb 2006
HIV/AIDS
The economics of HIV in Africa
Project Update
7 Jun 2002